Have installed KDE Plasma. Ready to remove Windows 10 but can't find instructions anywhere

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Does anyone know a link/source to a guide, preferably step by step?
All I find is how to uninstall Fedora and keep/install Windows but I want the opposite.

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I don’t specifically know of a source guide, but the process is relatively simple.

  1. Identify the microsoft partitions lsblk -f
    This should show all existing partitions. On my laptop I see this
nvme0n1                                                                                                    
├─nvme0n1p1            vfat        FAT32    SYSTEM   42F8-BF3E                               210.9M    18% /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p2                                                                                                
├─nvme0n1p3            ntfs                 OS       9630FA7F30FA65A1                                      
├─nvme0n1p4            ntfs                 RECOVERY A4BA3A26BA39F580

Note that p1 is my efi partition and I would not want to remove that one since is it used to boot both windows and fedora.
The other 3 partitions are all windows related.
p2 is hidden
p3 is the main os partition for windows
p4 is the windows recovery partition should repairs be needed.

  1. To completely remove windows I would use gparted or similar and remove p2, p3, & p4

  2. The last step is to remove the windows boot loader
    Assuming you are dual booting and have a single efi partition to boot both windows and linux.
    a. run the command sudo ls /boot/efi/EFI and look for a subdirectory named Microsoft
    b. If it exists run the command sudo rm -rf /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft
    This will remove the boot loader for windows.

  3. Now to complete the clean up so grub is properly configured simply run
    sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg (or wait until the next update that includes a kernel which will do that for you)

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Thank you for the quick response.
You have set me up on the right path. Now I know what to do.

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I would simply install Fedora telling the installer to reclaim all the disk and erase existing operating systems.